Jon Richardson Quotes

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

We all have the duty to do good.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.